The coat of arms of Carpatho-Ukraine is the official heraldic

Coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its ...

Zakarpattia Oblast The Zakarpattia Oblast ( uk, Закарпатська область, Zakarpatska oblast) is an administrative oblast located in western Ukraine, mostly coterminous with the historical region of Carpathian Ruthenia. Its administrative centre is ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. The coat of arms was initially adopted on 30 March 1920 along with coat of arms of other lands of

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.Yevhen Siuch, Rostyslav Kasianenko.
A bear in Ukrainian heraldry. Part 1: a detective story about creation of a coat of arms of Zakarpattia (Ведмідь в українській геральдиці. Частина-1: детектив щодо створення герба Закарпаття)
'. Spravzhnia varta. 26 April 2019 The Ukrainian version of the arms was adopted on 18 December 1990 as a revived coat of arms by Hungarian graphic artist Janos Reiti. The flag of the Zakarpattia Oblast is a

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defaced with the coat of arms of Carpathian Ukraine.

History

The coat of arms were created after the end of the First World War, when local councils of Eperjes, Ung, Huszt of the region of

Carpathian Ruthenia Carpathian Ruthenia ( rue, Карпатьска Русь, Karpat'ska Rus'; uk, Закарпаття, Zakarpattia; sk, Podkarpatská Rus; hu, Kárpátalja; ro, Transcarpatia; pl, Zakarpacie); cz, Podkarpatská Rus; german: Karpatenukrai ...

signed memorandum on leaving the

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following Bolshevik coup-d'état led by

Béla Kun Béla Kun (born Béla Kohn; 20 February 1886 – 29 August 1938) was a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. After attending Franz Joseph University at Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napo ...

and joining the newly created state of

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

as an autonomous land. The arms was designed by Gustav Friedrich, a head of heraldic commission of the Czechoslovak government. During negotiations with the central government in Prague as the representatives of Ruthenian political elite were not able to arrive to final conclusion, creation of the coat of arms was directed to specialists in heraldry in Prague. A technical task for development of emblem however anticipated, possibly, to consider wish of local political elite of the land. The Rusyn community firmly was standing on positions that were adopted back at the First Slavic Congress in Prague that took place during the 1848

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about the use of "Pan-Slavic" colors: blue, white, and red, while the supporters of Uniate (Greek Catholic) clergy were standing on position of use blue-yellow colors. Therefore professor Gustav Friedrich presented a compromised decision. That is, by using the four main colors, to offer an emblem "with an image of a bear which earlier was depicted on coat of arms of

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city". The arms is parted per pale show three gold bars on blue field in its first ( dexter) field and a red bear rampant on silver in its second (sinister) field. In 1924 Czech professor Irži Kralj, a specialist of ethnography expressed his opinion that the bear is a symbol for the Carpathian wildlife (fauna). For sometime it was thought that professor Friedrich was mistaken about existence of bear in heraldry of

or its vicinities, yet in 1991 a Polish economist Andrzej Wociał who was interested in history of wars proposed a version that bear may have derived from old heraldry of Peter Petrovics coat of arms who was an overlord of Zemplin and Ung in the 14th century. There also was found an old seal from Ung county (megye) belonging to village of Kostrino which starts with inscriptions "Ung. M." and then another "Kostrina". On the Kostrino village seal is depicted a bear rampant. On the coat of arms of Bereg County is also depicted a bear rampant, but it is a bear rampant to sinister ("facing left"). The arms were also used by the short-lived state of

Carpatho-Ukraine Carpatho-Ukraine or Carpathian Ukraine ( uk, Карпа́тська Украї́на, Karpats’ka Ukrayina, ) was an autonomous region within the Second Czechoslovak Republic, created in December 1938 by renaming Subcarpathian Rus' whose full ...

in 1939, but with the addition of the Ukrainian trident in the uppermost blue field, used previously by the

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. The idea of adding the seal of St. Volodymyr the Great came from Dr. Stefan Rosocha, a native of Maramoros. Since the territory is the same for the current Zakarpattia Oblast, the oblast uses the arms as its own.

Gallery

Coats of arms

File:Middle coat of arms of Czechoslovakia.svg, In the interwar years, the arms were part of the

coat of arms of Czechoslovakia The coat of arms of Czechoslovakia were changed many times during Czechoslovakia’s history, some alongside each other. This reflects the turbulent history of the country and a wish to use appropriate territorial coats of arms. In creation of Cze ...

. File:Karptska Ukraina COA.svg, The coat of arms of

in 1939. File:Rusyn coat of arms.svg, The coat of arms of the

Rusyns Rusyns (), also known as Carpatho-Rusyns (), or Rusnaks (), are an East Slavic ethnic group from the Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn, an East Slavic language variety, treated variously as either a distinct langu ...

. File:Герб русинів Хорватії.jpg, The coat of arms of Rusyns in

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. File:Coat of arms of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg, The coat of arms of the Zakarpattia Oblast, adopted in 1990.

Flags

File:Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast.svg, The flag of the Zakarpattia Oblast is a

defaced with the coat of arms. File:Flag of Rusyns 2007.svg, The flag of "Subcarpathian Ruthenia-Zakarpattia" (

Rusyn Rusyn may refer to: * Rusyns, Rusyn people, an East Slavic people ** Pannonian Rusyns, Pannonian Rusyn people, a branch of Rusyn people ** Lemkos, a branch of Rusyn (or Ukrainian) people ** Boykos, a branch of Rusyn (or Ukrainian) people * Rusyn l ...

organization in Ukraine) with the coat of arms.Subcarpathian Ruthenia-Zakarpattia requests again an autonomy (Підкарпатська Русь-Закарпаття знову вимагає автономії)
Zaxid. 22 June 2008

References

{{Ukrainian coats of arms Zakarpattia Oblast

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